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Ian Mckellen Biography

Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received two Oscar nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations.

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Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

People, Trying, Cameras, See, Invention, Camera

If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

Fun, Girlfriend, Men, Mystique, Patrick

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

Australia And New Zealand, Australians, Effect, Lord, People, Zealand

If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.

People, And Love, Would Be, Inhibitions, Limitless

I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.

British, Bullying, Care, Gay, Homophobic, School

I am very lucky to be man because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Getting Older, Lucky, Man, Men, Parts, Women

Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.

Beauty, Frodo, Goodness, Leap, Looks, Spirit

I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as. . . with me.

Gay, Private, Sexuality, Talking, Thing, Thinking

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot. ' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

Right, Sweet, Theatre, Waiting, World

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Children, Christmas, Falling In Love, Life, Win, Winning

Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.

Compliments, Done, Firsts, Iii, Inspiration, Thinking

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.

Alarmed, Covered Up, Faces, Five, Hair, Particularly

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Gandalf, Gravestone, Lies, Lying, Say, Thought

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

Stage Actors, Oscars, Walks, Stage, Know

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Gay, Leadership, Reality, Sort

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

Character, Director, Directors, Landed, Vices, Walking

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

Know, Part, Play, Trying, Understand, World

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.

Kids, School, Schools, Twelve, Young

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

Film, Imagination, Technology, Theater

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

Church, Gay, Giving, License, Thug

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